preposterousness
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Perhaps by now you’ve picked up on the preposterousness in this parade of terms.
From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2025
And yet, its polish merely supports what really makes you laugh: the flamboyant goofiness of Thede, who commits to preposterousness with deadly seriousness.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2022
But she’s also fully clued in to the preposterousness of a 24-year-old millionaire singer issuing prescriptions, and the soporific luxury of her lounges on the beach.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2021
Wholly embracing its preposterousness, this sprightly, enjoyable show is a huge improvement on its source: a humorless, casually sexist 1980 movie from Clint Eastwood’s ill-considered comedy phase.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2019
Already have we exposed that passing preposterousness in Pierre, which by reason of the above-named cause which we have endeavored to portray, induced him to cherish for a time four unitedly impossible designs.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
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